GitLab - Senior Backend Engineer, Gitlab Delivery: Runway (Platform Engineering)
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Requirements
• Experience operating and evolving production Kubernetes clusters (upgrades, scaling, disaster recovery, reliability) across one or more cloud environments (for example, Amazon EKS, Google GKE, or Azure AKS). • Experience designing and running GitOps-based continuous delivery workflows with ArgoCD, Flux, or similar tools; able to establish and maintain deployment standards across environments. • Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform or equivalent), including reusable modules, state management, and drift detection practices for safe infrastructure provisioning. • Ability to write and maintain automation using a scripting language (for example, Python, Bash, or Go) and guide others on best practices. • Working knowledge of networking fundamentals (DNS, load balancing, ingress) and related platform patterns (for example, service mesh) to design reliable network architectures. • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including mentoring, writing clear system documentation, and establishing runbooks and best practices across teams. • The Runway team builds and operates the Kubernetes-based platform and developer tooling that GitLab engineers use to ship changes safely and reliably. We own core platform capabilities like production cluster lifecycle management, GitOps-based delivery workflows (ArgoCD), infrastructure as code foundations (Terraform modules and standards), and the reliability and observability practices that keep the platform healthy. We collaborate asynchronously with application and security partners to onboard services, improve self-service workflows, and strengthen controls like RBAC, network policies, and secrets management. The team's focus is reducing friction for developers while improving consistency, security, and operational confidence as the platform scales. For more on how this team works, see the Team Handbook Page. • How GitLab Supports Full-Time Employees • Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being • Flexible Paid Time Off • Team Member Resource Groups • Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan • Growth and Development Fund • Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application. • Country Hiring Guidelines: GitLab hires new team members in countries around the world. All of our roles are remote, however some roles may carry specific location-based eligibility requirements. Our Talent Acquisition team can help answer any questions about location after starting the recruiting process. • Country Hiring Guidelines:
Responsibilities
• Lead the operation and evolution of production-grade Kubernetes clusters across cloud environments, making architectural decisions on upgrades, scaling, disaster recovery, and reliability improvements that impact the entire organization. • Define and drive GitOps strategy and standards across the organization, owning ArgoCD-based workflows by architecting Application Sets, sync policies, and deployment standards, and mentoring teams on GitOps best practices. • Architect and establish Terraform-based infrastructure-as-code standards across teams, building reusable modules and practices that enable safe, scalable cloud infrastructure provisioning while establishing clear patterns for state management and drift detection. • Lead platform observability strategy and incident response processes, set standards for monitoring and post-incident reviews, and drive organization-wide improvements to availability, performance, and resilience. • Partner with and mentor application teams to onboard services onto the platform, establishing patterns for documentation, runbooks, and self-service tooling that scale across the organization and improve developer productivity. • Design and establish security control standards such as role-based access control (RBAC), network policies, and secrets management (for example, Vault, Sealed Secrets, or External Secrets Operator) that meet compliance requirements and scale across the organization. • Drive integration of platform capabilities with continuous integration pipelines (for example, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Tekton) to establish end-to-end delivery workflows that set standards across the organization.
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